Social media

Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people or companies to create, share, or exchange information, career interests, ideas, and pictures/videos in virtual communities and networks. Social media is defined as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content." Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. They introduce substantial and pervasive changes to communication between businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals. These changes are the focus of the emerging field of technoself studies. Social media differ from traditional or industrial media in many ways, including quality,reach, frequency, usability, immediacy, and permanence. Social media operate in a dialogic transmission system (many sources to many receivers). This is in contrast to traditional media that operates under a monologic transmission model (one source to many receivers).

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Want to Be #RelationshipGoals? Avoid These Roadblocks

PsychCentral 22 Sep 2018

In this age of social media, it can be easy to make our relationships look good ... I had a married man hit on me repeatedly on social media ... When I blocked him there, he took to other forms of social media to continue sending messages that made me feel uncomfortable ... I blocked her husband across all social media platforms (he managed to send a last message before I could, even after I contacted his wife)....

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The Forgotten Island: Hurricane Maria took everything but their neighborhood school. Now, even that is gone

The Bryan Eagle 22 Sep 2018

“I love my little school. Please don’t close it.”. But it was too late ... Hurricane Maria was exacting yet another toll on the people of Puerto Rico ... “Now they have my kids far away ... ——— ... ——— ... What hurt the most was that no one explained why the school had to close. Parents learned that Marcos Sanchez was on the list from social media posts and local news reports ... School officials brought in social workers and psychologists to talk to the kids....

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Why happiness always looks the same on Instagram

Harpers Bazaar 21 Sep 2018

On social media, there is seemingly only one type of happy ... Many people have suggested this is down to the visual nature of many social media sites ... This might go some way to explaining why social media “clichés” and trends like sliced avocado on toast or identical tourist shots continue to receive such high engagement – we like them, because we already know them....

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Why Do so Many People Fall for Fake Profiles Online?

Yahoo Daily News 21 Sep 2018

But neither social media companies, nor technological innovations offer reliable ways to identify and remove social media profiles that don’t represent actual authentic people ... That tendency is even more pronounced on smartphones – which may explain why users accessing social media on smartphones are significantly more likely to accept fake profile requests than desktop or laptop computer users....

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Facebook drops on-site support for political campaigns

MSNBC 21 Sep 2018

Ahead of the midterms, Facebook announces it will no longer offer on-site support staff to political campaigns. NBC News Technology Reporter David Ingram explains why the social media giant’s “coziness” with political campaigns was of major concern to. Read more ... ....

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Treat your children like adults: Kajol

Deccan Chronicle 21 Sep 2018

I became independent because that’s what my mother taught me to be ...   ... “Like my mother, I try to explain things to my kids and answer their questions properly ... “I was shocked when Nysa made me sit down and explained what she had in mind for the future ... “Nysa kept telling me to post pictures on Instagram, and when I told her about my dislike for social media, she explained its importance to me ... ....

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BWSSB tanker releases sewage into drain; video sparks uproar on Twitter

The Times of India 21 Sep 2018

BENGALURU ... The video was uploaded on Twitter on Wednesday evening by Lakshmikanth M, who works with United Bengaluru, an organisation focusing on ecological issues, including restoration of the city’s dying lakes. Within a day, the video clip went viral and was retweeted several times ... What I saw on Wednesday explains why Bellanduru is getting polluted,” Lakshmikantha tweeted, raising alerts across social media ... ....

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Sketchy Case Against Kavanaugh #MeToo’s Thermidor?

The American Spectator 21 Sep 2018

as editor of the New York Review of Books I published a theme issue about #MeToo offenders who had not been convicted in a court of law but by social media,” Buruma told a Dutch publication ... He explains that university presses that advertise in the magazine threatened a boycott, which forced his resignation ... It helps explain why Macdonald and other sensible, humane people wish for this #MeToo to go the way of that Me Too ... ....

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Guest Media Alert by John Pilger: “Hold the Front Page. The Reporters are Missing”

Dissident Voice 21 Sep 2018

Note From Media Lens ... Little of any of this is alluded to in the media, let alone explained ... The Syria Campaign, set up by a New York PR agency, Purpose, funds a group known as the White Helmets, who claim falsely to be “Syria Civil Defence” and are seen uncritically on TV news and social media, apparently rescuing the victims of bombing, which they film and edit themselves, though viewers are unlikely to be told this....

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From Spice Girl to brand queen

Irish Independent 21 Sep 2018

She knows what women want from their clothes each season, balancing the line between function and form - that's the real knack of a great designer," Ross explains. Of course, back in 2008, no one was to know what role social media would have in the modern fashion landscape ... She also uses social media to bolster her family-focused image, often featuring her children or husband David....

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People in Pa. prisons are smuggling medicine to treat their addictions because the state won’t ...

Philadelphia Daily News 21 Sep 2018

The DOC took to social media to explain its book ban ... David O'Gurek, an associate professor of family and community medicine at Temple who runs a buprenorphine program out of his family medicine practice, explains that "one of the big issues with any substance-use disorder is not the actual use....

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No Love Lost Between Wizkid, Two Baby Mamas

This Day 21 Sep 2018

Sunday Ehigiator ... Of late, the disunity among the trio became more obvious with the constant shades the two always post on their social media pages. Perhaps, a trip down memory lane would suffice to explain how the young crooner ended up with three different kids from three different mothers in the space of seven years. Oluwanishola Ogudugu is the first of Wizkid baby mamas ... Then came the Jada Pollock and her son Zion Balogun ... He said ... ....

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Chinese Government Decisions To Affect Tencent Stock Price In 2 Key Areas

Seeking Alpha 21 Sep 2018

Tencent (OTCPK.OTCPK.TCEHY) has seen its stock price decline in recent months. This is mainly due to the short-term general malaise in the Chinese stock market. The Trump administration's trade protectionist measures are the prime reason for this. Tencent has also been negatively affected by the Chinese government's strictures on gaming ... As my previous article explained, this is much more than just a social media or chat platform ... Gaming....

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